I really have a thing for French Cooking .. as I’ve said before putting this together with organic ingredients is something incredible. Here’s a simple dish that Di & I enjoy. Hope you do too.
Shopping List:

2 lbs of Organic Carrots
1/2 teaspoon of Unrefined Sea Salt
2 cups of Spring Water
3 Tablespoons of Organic Unsalted Butter
1 1/4 Tablespoon Of [...]

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 What a week it’s been ….. Yahoo who handles the web hosting for my business has gone from bad to really..really bad. So I’ve been scrambling trying to learn web design in CSS and rebuilding the site for a new hosting service. Di even had this party-ish thing that I had to bag out of…sheesh..
 Anyway, [...]

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 We’ve added another category which should be fun. It’s called “Try Something New”. Now this is basically to highlight some food item or cooking technique that you can add to broaden your culinary existence.
 Well the first item isn’t something that most of you would consider as “something new”. It just the plain old red pepper, not [...]

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 We’re adding a new category to the Organic Test Kitchen and that’s Taste Tests. This should be a fun one where we compare our impression of two different food items. and we’ll be objective with no agenda to push. If the conventional item for instance tastes better it tastes better..we can’t do anything about it. [...]

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 I saw my brother cooking a lamb over Easter .. Oven gets opened..peeks in. Pokes the carcass.. Shuts oven.. .. 15 minutes go by.. Opens oven door..peeks in. Takes a knife to the carcass.. inspects for redness.. Shuts oven door.. Repeats until he gets sick of it and says some cuss word and if anybody [...]

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 Like most dishes you can customize mayonnaise to your own individual style. One such mayonnaise version is known as Green Mayonnaise. Green Mayonnaise is mayo on veggies. So you get the great taste of mayo with a veggie kick.  Although it doesn’t work everywhere it is a really nice flavor addition when using mayo in salads, with [...]

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 I’ve been missing in action for about a week due to tax time (and last weekend Diane collared me to have one day of fun .. she’s taking her 5th grade class camping this week so she needed time to hang out. .. so we hung out). Anyway, during all of this I needed some adventure [...]

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 It was my birthday last Sunday which also happens to be my excuse de jour for not posting. But in addition to being an excuse for goofing off, I got some cool new gifts as well. One was this laser paperweight from a dear friend, a super sharp high carbon steel paring knife from another [...]

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 The trouble with a the premixed special seasonings out there are three:

They’re generally non-organic (ie Chemicalized).
By the time the spices are prepped, packaged in bulk for the specialty seasoning manufacturer, transported and waiting to be purchased they’ve reached legal drinking age.  And spices flatten out as time goes by.
You have to accept what they give you. [...]

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 So a few weekends ago Di was over and while we were chatting I was peeling some vegis with my paring knife. Was distracted and broke off the blade (was diving into a whole turnip). Should have known since it was chatting with her that caused the distraction leading to the thumb slicing when sharpening [...]

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